>We taste bad?
>i heard we taste like ham
some of us got no taste
US working class "buying power" calculated as wages versus cost of living, peaked in 1968
after a decade of accelerating decline, it fell off a cliff in the 80s
woodstock was the funeral dirge for america, economically, socially, culturally, and in so many ways…
Pope Francis: Priests can bless same-sex unions
Pope Francis has formally approved allowing priests to bless couples in same-sex relationships in some circumstances, according to the Vatican.
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The approval came in a declaration released Monday by the Vatican’s doctrine office, The Associated Press reported.
Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez noted in the document, which was reviewed and signed by Francis, that the decision does not change “the traditional doctrine of the church about marriage.” It allows for no type of liturgical rite or blessing similar to a liturgical rite, but instead permits “a broadening and enrichment of the classical understanding of blessings.”
“It is precisely in this context that one can understand the possibility of blessing couples in irregular situations and same-sex couples without officially validating their status or changing in any way the Church’s perennial teaching on marriage,” he wrote.
Previously, the Vatican argued against blessing same-sex unions, though Francis suggested earlier this year that priests could bless same-sex couples, so long as the blessings were separate from the sacrament of marriage, The Washington Post reported.
“We cannot be judges who only deny, push back and exclude,” Francis wrote in a letter dated Sept. 25, according to the newspaper. “As such, pastoral prudence must adequately discern whether there are forms of blessing, requested by one or several people, that do not convey a wrong idea of a matrimony. Because when one seeks a blessing, one is requesting help from God.”
In the declaration released Monday, Fernandez said the new guidelines are “based on the pastoral vision of Pope Francis.” He added that the church “should neither provide for nor promote a ritual for the blessings of couples in an irregular situation.”
“At the same time, one should not prevent or prohibit the Church’s closeness to people in every situation in which they might seek God’s help through a simple blessing,” he said.
Rev. James Martin, a prominent advocate for LGBTQ Catholics, told The New York Times that the newly released declaration “opens the door to nonliturgical blessings for same-sex couples, something that had been previously off-limits for bishops, priests and deacons.”
“Along with many priests, I will now be delighted to bless my friends in same-sex unions,” he said.
Francis has been trying to make the church more welcoming to LGBT people without changing moral doctrine on same-sex activity — which is considered sinful — since his election in 2013, Reuters reported.
https://www.wpxi.com/news/trending/pope-francis-priests-can-bless-same-sex-unions/UJE4WQY26BBXDOPTOMKLCOECEE/
https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2023/12/18/0901/01963.html#en
https://apnews.com/article/vatican-lgbtq-pope-bfa5b71fa79055626e362936e739d1d8
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/02/pope-francis-gay-blessings-synod/
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/world/europe/pope-gay-lesbian-same-sex-blessing.html
https://www.reuters.com/world/vatican-approves-blessings-same-sex-couples-under-certain-conditions-2023-12-18/
>How many times is this going to be posted?
only once by me
you the new self-appointed hall monitor?
>For once I actually agree with Fetterman…
maybe you should have been paying more attention to him instead of being a triggered part of the QR echo chamber
did you piss all over the multiple posts about the sale of US steel?
aksing for a fren….
does your position come with a sash or a badge of some sort?
or maybe a gold star for your forehead?
>something in notables that shills have been obsessing over today?
i wasn't HERE all day
unlike you, i HAVE a life
>Don't be mad you got called out, it just means you need to up your shill game.
says the SHILL shitting the bread with non-stop no-info-lost posts attacking other anons
your GLOW is visible from the ISS
>Gonna need a source for that.
you have to go back
that was one or two yrs ago
they lost a LOT of voluteers as a result
i showed their post to all the bell ringers i met
most packed up and left immediately